GEOLOGY OF MINES

CURSO: GEOLOGÍA DE MINAS

DOCENTE: ING. JOSÉ SALAS MEDINA
INTEGRANTES:
 SOLÓRZANO OTERO, ERICK MARCO
 MERMA ALFARO, DIEGO ALBERTO
 MOLINA SANDOVAL, LUZGARDO
 YUCRA MAMANI, JHON JUNIOR
 PUMACAYO RODRIGUEZ YEFERSON
 COLANA NINA BRYAN RONALD
 MEJIA REYES EDWIN ELIAS
 LOPE CURO ROSA ELIANA
 GAMEZ SILVA ALISTER YONAIKER
 VIZCARRA MAMANI RONY
 CUAYLA BENITES BRIAN

CICLO: VII
MOQUEGUA – PERÚ
2017
 CONTENIDO

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 2

GEOLOGY OF MINES ....................................................................................... 3

I. DEFINITION ................................................................................................ 3

III. PARTICIPATION OF THE GEOLOGIST IN MINING ............................... 3

A. MINERAL GEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION AND EXPLORATION ........ 3

Prospecting Stage: ......................................................................................... 3

Exploration Stage: .......................................................................................... 3

B. DRILLING.............................................................................................. 4

Diamond drilling .............................................................................................. 4

C. MODELING AND PLANNING OF MINES ............................................. 5

Design............................................................................................................. 5

IV. CONCLUSIONS ....................................................................................... 6

V. BIBLIOGRAPHY ....................................................................................... 7

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 INTRODUCTION

In any mining operation, understanding of reservoir geology and waste rock is critical for
successful resource estimation, geotechnical engineering, mining planning and mineral
processing.

Better geological interpretation at the mine scale improves law control, mine planning
and profitability. Consultants should be leaders in the understanding of ore formation
processes. With a unique combination of structural geology and hands-on mining
experience, it helps improve mine development, operations and exploration near the
mine. Integrated mining models will improve mine exploration objectives, optimize
mapping and control of law, reduce the risk of ore diversion and involuntary dilution, and
improve mine reconciliation.

Better geological interpretation at the mine scale improves law control, mine planning
and profitability. Consultants should be leaders in the understanding of ore formation
processes. With a unique combination of structural geology and hands-on mining
experience, it helps improve mine development, operations and exploration near the
mine. Integrated mining models will improve mine exploration objectives, optimize
mapping and control of law, reduce the risk of ore diversion and involuntary dilution, and
improve mine reconciliation.

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 GEOLOGY OF MINES
I. DEFINITION

Mining geology studies the technical principles to determine the location, formation and
economic possibilities and structural relations of a mineral deposit.

II. PARTICIPATION OF THE GEOLOGIST IN MINING

A. MINERAL GEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION AND EXPLORATION

Prospecting Stage:
The objective of this stage is the recognition of the mineral deposit with economic interest
and to delimit the area to investigate to approximately 50 km2 for a next exploration
campaign, will be applied in large extensions of land with a great spacing between the
samples. In this stage geochemical and geophysical methods will be applied, of which
the geologist in charge of this campaign, will decide the precise method to be used in
each one of the cases.

Exploration Stage:
Unlike exploration, the exploration stage seeks to delineate the mineral deposit for future
economic evaluation, at this stage we obtain data such as laws and their distribution,
size, geometry, density, size, etc. At this stage the geological method will be applied,
which is a direct method that will help us to obtain the data mentioned above, and then
be interpreted with the help of mining software.

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 B. DRILLING

Diamond drilling
Diamond drilling (diamond drilling) is one of the most widely used drilling methods par
excellence in mining activity, due to the greater information it is able to provide to
geological engineers for discovery, verification, study and cubiculation of mineral
deposits; providing them with valuable information for the further design of the operating
system to be applied.
The capture of these witnesses in the highest possible percentage (recovery), coupled
with the speed of their obtaining; are the purposes of the day, the same that motivates
the innovations in technology as far as tools, drills, reamers, inner tubes, etc. are
concerned. as the main and auxiliary teams.

QA/QC
It is the combination of quality assurance, the process or set of processes used to
measure and ensure the quality of a product and quality control, the process of ensuring
that products and services meet all expectations

QA = QUALITY ASSUANCE
QC = QUALITY CONTROL

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 C. MODELING AND PLANNING OF MINES

Before carrying out the construction and operation works in the mining units, a
determining step to verify the areas of the deposit from which mineral will be extracted
is the mining planning. The work done for this - such as modeling the mine - are
primordial to know the areas where to work, when to do it, the mining reserves and the
economic benefit of the project

This information is based on all drilling, metallurgical studies, geological models,

geotechnical, hydrological, geophysical studies, among others, that have been done
previously and that allow to have this model as close to reality as possible.

Design
Once we have the resource blocks model, we must obtain what are known as "reserves";
that is to say, to determine all those blocks that are technically susceptible of extracting
and treating in the plant, producing a global economic benefit to the business.

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 III. CONCLUSIONS

 Geology intervenes throughout the mining cycle from the estimation of resources
to the closure of mines.
 All operations benefit by ensuring a solid geological model that supports the
mining process.
 Better geological interpretation at the mine scale improves law control, mine
planning and profitability.

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 IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY

 http://www.srk.com/es/nuestros-servicios/servicios-mineros/ww-geologia-
minera
 https://es.scribd.com/doc/110964999/1-3-3-Prospeccion-y-Exploracion
 https://es.slideshare.net/19Melz/etapas-de-la-prospeccion-geologica-minera
 http://www.perforacionesdiamantinas.com/2015/12/28/perforacion-diamantina/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QA/QC
 http://www.rumbominero.com/revista/informes/modelamiento-y-planificacion-de-
minas-2/
 http://www.eumed.net/tesis-
doctorales/2011/lsw/Etapas%20de%20prospeccion%20exploracion%20y%20e
xplotacion.htm

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